4/13, 7-8:30 Latah Alliance on Mental Illness: Family Support program is meeting. This group is support for families that have a member dealing with mental illness.

4/15, Alcoholics Anonymous is having a speakers meeting from 11-2:30. It is open to nonmembers.

We have two mental health related conferences coming to town:

NAMI spring conference May 20-see attached flyer for details.

Palouse Continuing Education Consortium has an excellent opportunity to earn CEUs at their Spring conference. The CEUs are sponsored by WSU Counseling and Psychological Services.

Workshop description:

Are you working with your clients for an hour and coming back to square one next week?

As health providers and educators, lately, have you felt tired, exhausted, powerless, burned-out, worried, and even short of breath?

Health care providers are in the front line of facing the traumatic stress of modern society, whether it’s presented with client’s unsafe behaviors, hostile attitude, or worsening symptoms. Mental health professionals may find some clients’ intense emotions intimidating. Body-focused health professionals may feel frustrated with some clients’ tendency to coming back to the exact same pain spots.

This workshop is designed to quickly equip you with basic resilience to traumatic stress. Through recent developments in neuroscience research and somatic psychology, you will gain a better understanding of how traumatic stress affects our body and brain.

By applying basic principles, we will together explore ways to enhance our own self-regulation and explore possible ways to facilitate clients moving forward. Also, by understanding how unprocessed trauma is stored in both body and mind, we will gain the initial capacity to collaborate with other health professionals to build a better trauma prevention and recovery network.

Educators (teachers and school psychologists who are interested in developing trauma-inform schools to serve students from underprivileged background)

Presenter:

Chia-Chi (Alicia) Hu, Ph.D., Psychologist in Private Practice

Before completing her counseling psychology doctoral dissertation in adult children-parent attachment, Alicia was trained and worked as a university counselor in Taiwan. Since 2008, she specialized in the trauma recovery field. In recent years, she received further training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, an approach in somatic psychology that integrates interpersonal neurobiology and attachment theory.

With her Eastern background and interest, she received yoga RYT-200 training and other body-based movement techniques rooted in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine). Understanding how traumatic stress is often stored in the body, she is going through TRE (Tension/Trauma Release Exercise) training this year.

Currently, she provides individual and conjoint therapy in Moscow, Idaho. With the goal of promoting trauma-informed care and trauma-sensitive schools, she wrote a popular psychology book in Chinese Mandarin in 2014. Most recently, she co-created, along with Ann Westcott, a series of three trauma resilience children storybooks in English, which will be published in both the UK and the US later this year.

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Palouse Continuing Education Consortium

Spring Workshop

May 5, 2017 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Gladish Community and Cultural Center

115 NW State St. Pullman Washington

Two Opportunities for Continuing Education

Register for Just One or Both

Registration ends April 28, 2017

8:30 am to 11:45 pm

Mind, Mood, Meds, and More

Presented by

William Cone, MD

3 CEU

v Understanding of Psychiatric Treatment, its Role and Interface with Other Professions